"Habits (Stay High)" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Tove Lo, self- released as a single in March 2013, and re-released on 6 December 2013 by Universal Music. It appeared on her debut extended play, Truth Serum, and was the lead single from her debut studio album, Queen of the Clouds. Written by Lo and its producers, Ludvig Söderberg and Jakob Jerlström, it is an electropop song featuring a minimal and upbeat electronic instrumentation. The lyrics describe the singer's attempts to forget her previous boyfriend through substance abuse, drinking and other hedonistic practices. The song was well received by most critics, who commended its lyrics and production. It sold over 2.6 million copies in the United States and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest position on that chart by a Swedish artist since "The Sign" by Ace of Base (1994). The track topped the charts in Poland and Romania, and peaked within the top ten in many countries. The single was named Song of the Year at the 2015 Grammis Awards in Sweden.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful, the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Spiteful_(1899)
1941:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor
1975:
The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism and began a 25-year occupation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor
1987:
A disgruntled airline ex-employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss, two pilots, and himself, causing the plane to crash near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771
2007:
A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_South_Korea_oil_spill
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
afflatus: A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to divine influence. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/afflatus
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny. People's speech, their voices, their very glances, became furtive and repressed. Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark. --Willa Cather https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather